DivestUSS
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DivestUSS (aka Ethics4USS) is a group of members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) committed to ensuring it follows an investment strategy that protects the planet, respects human rights, invests responsibly and ensures good pensions.
Calling all UK university academics! Your pension scheme (USS) is investing some of your pension contributions in fossil fuels and the banks that fund them. We can change this. Sign the petition and call for USS to divest. divestuss.org/petition-uss/
Petition USS
As the climate crisis worsens, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) is still investing our pension money in the fossil fuel companies and banks that cause the crisis. We want USS to commit …
divestuss.org
September 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Calling all UK university academics! Your pension scheme (USS) is investing some of your pension contributions in fossil fuels and the banks that fund them. We can change this. Sign the petition and call for USS to divest. divestuss.org/petition-uss/
Green Pensions Claim! Legal firm looking to test if action can be taken against employers not offering a green pension. Would be great if USS members took this up - see www.leighday.co.uk/our-services...
Green Pensions Claim
Leigh Day is looking into whether legal action can be pursued against employers who do not offer ‘green pensions’ to their staff.
www.leighday.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Green Pensions Claim! Legal firm looking to test if action can be taken against employers not offering a green pension. Would be great if USS members took this up - see www.leighday.co.uk/our-services...
Dutch pension funds divest from Tesla - because of $ 56 billion paid to Musk. But guess what? USS just invested £ 142 million in Tesla. Unbelievable! www.ipe.com/news/dutch-p...
Dutch pension funds divest from Tesla
ABP and Bpf Bouw, two of the largest four pension funds in the Netherlands with over €600bn in assets between them, have sold their shares in Tesla over ESG concerns
www.ipe.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Dutch pension funds divest from Tesla - because of $ 56 billion paid to Musk. But guess what? USS just invested £ 142 million in Tesla. Unbelievable! www.ipe.com/news/dutch-p...
USS invested nearly £1 billion in Thames Water- now worthless. But like Heathrow members don’t want the company bailed out at customers expense. Thames has been a disaster for USS and all the rivers they have polluted. Write to your MP now !
🚨THIS IS A THREE-LINE WHIP 🚨
The Government is trying to pass a law that could force the public to bailout failing water companies. We need to act now, before it's too late.
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE!
#BanTheBailouts
www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...
The Government is trying to pass a law that could force the public to bailout failing water companies. We need to act now, before it's too late.
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE!
#BanTheBailouts
www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...
January 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
USS invested nearly £1 billion in Thames Water- now worthless. But like Heathrow members don’t want the company bailed out at customers expense. Thames has been a disaster for USS and all the rivers they have polluted. Write to your MP now !
USS owns 10% Heathrow but that doesn’t mean we want a climate wrecking third runway - protest now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/si...
Don't expand Heathrow Airport!
URGENT: The Government could let a third runway be built at Heathrow Airport. It would spell bad news for the environment - and could see flight prices go up £40 per ticket, so bad for our pockets too...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
USS owns 10% Heathrow but that doesn’t mean we want a climate wrecking third runway - protest now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/si...
makemymoneymatter.co.uk/lumberjack/ Only the ethical option in the DC scheme avoids deforestation. The main fund (£80 billion approx) makes no such exception and also funds fracking tar sands and dirty banks. Email your finance director/VC now!
Benedict Lumberjack - Make My Money Matter
Want to know where your pension goes? Meet Benedict Lumberjack, the foul forest-flaming CEO paid for by our pensions.
makemymoneymatter.co.uk
January 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
makemymoneymatter.co.uk/lumberjack/ Only the ethical option in the DC scheme avoids deforestation. The main fund (£80 billion approx) makes no such exception and also funds fracking tar sands and dirty banks. Email your finance director/VC now!
Exactly! And USS keep investing our pension money in fracking tar sands and the dirty banks that fund fossil fuels!
1/2. "At 3C or more of heating by 2050, there could be more than 4 BILLION DEATHS, significant sociopolitical fragmentation worldwide, failure of states (with resulting rapid, enduring, and significant loss of capital), and extinction events." Guardian.
January 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Exactly! And USS keep investing our pension money in fracking tar sands and the dirty banks that fund fossil fuels!
Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries (Guardian). A 30 year old member of USS could expect to be drawing their pension in 2070 but without urgent divestment from f fuels they can forget it. USS should divest now!
January 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries (Guardian). A 30 year old member of USS could expect to be drawing their pension in 2070 but without urgent divestment from f fuels they can forget it. USS should divest now!
USS invests our pension contributions in Barclays HSBC Santander NatWest and Lloyds. All pumping money into new fossil fuels. This must stop- no pensions on a burning planet.
Our pensions and banks are financing the climate and nature crises.
HSBC has been found by Global Witness to be funding deforestation in one of South America’s largest forests... 🪵
Do you bank with HSBC? Switch to a green bank today 👋https://makemymoneymatter.co.uk/bankswitch
HSBC has been found by Global Witness to be funding deforestation in one of South America’s largest forests... 🪵
Do you bank with HSBC? Switch to a green bank today 👋https://makemymoneymatter.co.uk/bankswitch
January 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
USS invests our pension contributions in Barclays HSBC Santander NatWest and Lloyds. All pumping money into new fossil fuels. This must stop- no pensions on a burning planet.
Please sign this urgently needed petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis
Communicate clearly:
1) the science behind the climate crisis - how & why for the first time in the last year we've averaged 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels
2) the implications of going beyond...
petition.parliament.uk
January 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Please sign this urgently needed petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses (the guardian). This is the water company that USS invested nearly £1 billion of our pension money. And no one has taken responsibility for the mistakes or financial losses.
December 23, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses (the guardian). This is the water company that USS invested nearly £1 billion of our pension money. And no one has taken responsibility for the mistakes or financial losses.
University bans on big oil firms at recruitment fairs rise by 30%. Great work by People and Planet. But university staff pension still invests in oil gas fracking tar sands and dirty banks. Engagement doesn’t work- divest now !
December 20, 2024 at 2:43 PM
University bans on big oil firms at recruitment fairs rise by 30%. Great work by People and Planet. But university staff pension still invests in oil gas fracking tar sands and dirty banks. Engagement doesn’t work- divest now !
Your pension is probably your biggest financial asset. Learn how the money is invested at www.uss.co.uk. If you’re in the DC scheme you can make those contributions fossil fuel free but all contributions to the DB scheme get invested in a portfolio with oil gas fracking tar sands and dirty banks !
USS
www.uss.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Your pension is probably your biggest financial asset. Learn how the money is invested at www.uss.co.uk. If you’re in the DC scheme you can make those contributions fossil fuel free but all contributions to the DB scheme get invested in a portfolio with oil gas fracking tar sands and dirty banks !
So you don’t want more money funding fossil fuels; your university doesn’t want more money funding fossil fuels but both you and your university are investing your pension in fossil fuels! Write to your finance officer today! divestuss.org/news/
December 5, 2024 at 10:10 AM
So you don’t want more money funding fossil fuels; your university doesn’t want more money funding fossil fuels but both you and your university are investing your pension in fossil fuels! Write to your finance officer today! divestuss.org/news/
Great news and congratulations to all at People and Planet. BUT 100% of university staff in USS have their pensions invested in fossil fuels and the banks that fund fossil fuels. And their views on this not even considered. It’s an emergency- USS must divest from all fossil fuels.
🔥 This is MASSIVE news!
More than 75% of UK universities divest from the fossil fuel industry!
That's thanks to 10 years of tireless campaigning from students putting on the pressure. ✊
Campaigning works. This shows our power! 👇
More than 75% of UK universities divest from the fossil fuel industry!
That's thanks to 10 years of tireless campaigning from students putting on the pressure. ✊
Campaigning works. This shows our power! 👇
More than three-quarters of UK universities join fossil fuel pledge, say activists
Move to exclude fossil fuel firms from investment portfolios follows years of campaigning by staff and students
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Great news and congratulations to all at People and Planet. BUT 100% of university staff in USS have their pensions invested in fossil fuels and the banks that fund fossil fuels. And their views on this not even considered. It’s an emergency- USS must divest from all fossil fuels.
We’ve posted an update on USS’s investment in Thames Water. £ 1 billion of members’ money down the drain ! Read more at www.divestuss.org/news/
November 16, 2024 at 5:32 PM
We’ve posted an update on USS’s investment in Thames Water. £ 1 billion of members’ money down the drain ! Read more at www.divestuss.org/news/
Well done Equity for giving its members a pension fund that excludes fossil fuels. If you’re in the DC part of USS you can choose your fund including an ethical fund. But you have to dig into MyUSS to find it. See our blog at divestUSS.org for how to do it.| Pensions industry | The Guardian
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November 15, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Well done Equity for giving its members a pension fund that excludes fossil fuels. If you’re in the DC part of USS you can choose your fund including an ethical fund. But you have to dig into MyUSS to find it. See our blog at divestUSS.org for how to do it.| Pensions industry | The Guardian
Before she creates pension megafunds Ms Reeves might want to look at USS. £ Millions lost through Thames Water, still funding climate wrecking fracking tar sands and oil/gas and ignoring members’ views!
November 14, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Before she creates pension megafunds Ms Reeves might want to look at USS. £ Millions lost through Thames Water, still funding climate wrecking fracking tar sands and oil/gas and ignoring members’ views!
DivestUSS (aka Ethics4USS) is a group of USS members pressing USS - the UK universities’ pension scheme with funds of approx £80 billion to follow a strategy that protects the planet, respects human rights and gives a good pension. We blog at divestuss.org. Join us!
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November 13, 2024 at 1:48 PM
DivestUSS (aka Ethics4USS) is a group of USS members pressing USS - the UK universities’ pension scheme with funds of approx £80 billion to follow a strategy that protects the planet, respects human rights and gives a good pension. We blog at divestuss.org. Join us!